Rail-fastener for metallic ties.



Patented Sept. 30, I902.

, 1 u w A A C. S. SHALLENBERGER. RAIL FASTENEB FOR METALLIC TIES.

(Application filed Feb. 18, 1902.)

(No Model) I UNITED STATES, PATENT @FFICE.

CHARLES S. SHALLENBERGER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD S. MARSHALL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RAlL-FASTENER FOR METALLIC TIES.

SPECI IC ON forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,371, dated September 30, 1902.

Original application filed August 19,1901, Serial No. 72,537. Divided and this application filed February 18, 1902. Serial No. 94,658. (No model.)

1'0 l wh m i m y n r base of the rail and with its depending tongue Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. SHALLEN- 10 received within an additional hole 12, BERGER, of the city of Milwaukee, Milwaukee which was previously formed in the top of the county, State of \Visconsin, have invented tie by bending downwardly the lug in the 55 5 certain new and useful Improvementsin Railmanner described. Then the usual nuts and Fasteners for Metallic Ties, of which the folnut-locks are placed upon the bolt and selowing is a full, clear, and exact description, cured in position, thereby holding all the parts reference being had to the accompanying in a very safe manner. The said tongue drawings, forming a part hereof. will prevent the fastener 8 from becoming 60 to This invention relates to a rail-fastener for displaced by vibration and will also prevent metallic ties; and it consists of the novel the fastener from turning upon the bolt which construction, combination, and arrangement holds it. p of parts hereinafter shown, described, and Thefingers 11 may be beveled, as indicated claimed. in dotted lines in Fig. 2, for the purpose of 65 I 5 The object of my invention is to provide an more closely fitting the base of the rail;

improved rail-fastener which shall be cheap 13 indicates the usual nut-lock. and simple in construction and very efficient What I claim isin use. 1. The improved rail-fastener 8, provided In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective with a bolt-opening 9, and an integral central 7o View showing my improved rail-fastener in tongue 10 formed atone end by bending downuse. Fig. 2 is a section through the parts at wardly the central portion of the metal and one end of the tie shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is therebyleaving two fingers 11 one at each side a detail perspective view of the fastener deof said tongue alined with the body of the fastached and inverted. tener, substantially as specified. 75 My improved rail-fastener is designed for 2. The combination with the sheet-metal use especially in connection with the tie shown tie 1, having the two tongues 2 near each end, and described in my concurrent application and having bolt -holes 3 adjacent to said filed August 19, 1901, Serial No. 72,537, wheretongues, and having slots 4 leading from said in the tie is formed of a sheet of metal 1, cut bolt-holes, and having the lugs 5 producedby 80 to form two tongues 2 near each end. Boltbending the metal downwardly adjacent the holes 3 are also formed in the tie adjacent to slots at to lock the bolt-heads against turning, said tongues, and a slot 4: intercepts said boltand having the wooden rail-seats 7 upon the holes. A lug 5 is also produced by bending tongues 2; of metallic fasteners 8 provided the metal downwardly adjacent said slot l, with the bolt-openings 9, and having the in- 85 the purpose of which is to prevent the bolttegral tongues 10 formed by bending the cenhead 6 from turning. tral portions downwardly, thereby leaving the 7 indicates a rail-seat, preferably of wood, fingers 11 to engage the flanges of the rail, but it may be of any desired material and said tongues 10 being insertedinto the openwhich is located upon the tongues 2. Bolts ings formed by bending down the lugs 5; o are passed through the openings 3 and moved bolts inserted through said bolt-holes 3 in the toward the rail until they occupy the slots 4, tie, and slid into the slots 4, and inserted as shown in Fig. 2. The fasteners 8 are prothrough the bolt-openings 9 in the fasteners; vided with'an opening 9, through which the and nuts upon said bolts; substantially as bolt is passed, and an integral tongue 10 is specified. 95 formed at one endby bending downwardly In testimony whereof I ailix'mysignature the central portion of the metal, and thereby in presence of two witnesses.

leaving the two remaining fingers 11 in norg mal position, with the said tongue between CHARLES SHALLENBERGER' them. Witnesses: In operation the fastener Sis placed in po- ALFRED A. EIoKs,

sition, with its fingers 11 bearing upon the JOHN G. HIGDON. 

